Web 2.0 Tools

Reviewed by Bonnie Eva-Gainan

Story Bird

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http://storybird.com/A place to create and share stories. This would be absolutely fabulous for English. You can create stories for your students or have your students create their own.
They have some great characters and cute layouts. It is pretty easy to use and have a library of stories to use as examples.

Storybird Quick Tour from Storybird on Vimeo.



File2.WS

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http://file2.ws/
File to website allows you to turn any file into a web address so anyone can access it. This allows me to get worksheets or assignments into students hands where ever they are.
I like this even though it may not be any different that emailing the document or uploading the document. I can post the site to my Blog and kids can access it from school since they are not allowed to access email.

Woopid

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http://www.woopid.com/A free site with technology training videos. It is may be helpful to use with students that want to learn advanced features of a program or who were absent during the lesson on how to use the technology.
They do not have a lot of tutorials, but you may request tutorials. The tutorials you request are $3.99 a piece. Not a real usable site unless they have specifically what you